22/03/2009 by Steve McCall.

Congrats to Alastair who rode TWO pbs in a weekend. After yesterdays 23.30 on Levens, he recorded a 23.13 on the V718 today in horrendous conditions with people assessing that it rode around a whole minute slower than normal.

Hats off to a great weekend of testing by Al, even though he is still tall, lanky and ugly

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22/03/2009 by Al and Sarah.

Club Run Report 22/03/2009 - Present were (????????) Alex Millman, Doug Tomlinson, Jack De Bokx, Robert Bradby, Martyn Bolt, Martin Lucas, Craig Johnson, Craig Newton, Harry Dixon and Dave Sugden. There is a bit of confusion as to who was out today as the start was very disjointed. We believe Harry and Dave agreed to meet at the Fountain with Martin ??? Then it appears there were a,b and c runs today with people going various ways. Can I suggest whilst it is a good idea to have various paced runs it would be nice if everyone met at the same place and informed others rather than just doing their own thing. So our group ! which included Al, Doug, Jack and Brad set off out to Hebden Bridge and over Widdup Moor with a horrendous head wind all the way, enough to make us almost turn back ! However we persevered and got to Wycoller in very good time considering the conditions where we stopped for lunch. On leaving the cafe we passed the Martyn (ginger) group and headed on over The Herders to Oxenhope where we were gifted with the long hoped for tail wind which gave us a grateful push home. Ride statistics were 58 miles, average 14.4 mph average. If you were out and you’re not mentioned please can you comment so I can award points accordingly - and please, please please can we all meet in one place at the start to make life a lot easier cheers.

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22/03/2009 by Martyn.

loads of riders left the library in various directions, in fact some didn’t even go to the library.

 It was windy going over Denholme and Cowling, we stopped for a coffe at Rossi’s to find only one cyclist had been there before, so where Dave, harry etc got to no one knows.

We saw some people in similar jerseys going the opposite way when we got to Wycoller so we politely waved.

 Craig J yo-yo’d off the back over widdup, after taking a wrong turning and going towards Burnley!

 We were stoped on the steep climb while a helicopter went over!

 A great ride back then with a tail wind and after dave rhodes and myself  had done all the work pulling Craig home he grinned and shot away just after Elland but blew up and missed out on the Kirklees sign at Cooper Bridge

 Scores on the doors, 107.79 kms  23.2 kph avg maxxed out at 60 kph

 did anyone tape milan san remo?

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22/03/2009 by Steve McCall.

On Saturady, 4 Thorpers rode the infamous Levens L1015 course, which is regarded as being the fastest 10 in the country, Wiggins did a 17.58 here 2 years ago!!!!!

The weather lulled us into a false sense of security as we were in the lee of the wind at the HQ area but on the course there was an extremely stiff cross wind with john Lancaster saying he got a real sped wobble with his disk and tri-spoke combo. The  ski-slope start was negated due to a block head wind, none of us got much over 35 on what is a 3% downhill section!

The times are extremely interesting;

1st Al Wareham- 23.30

2nd Steve McCall 23.32

3rd John Lancaster 23.41

4th Les Dawson 25.24

Les whacked a solid 2 and a half minutes off his PB so an exceptional ride and well done to Al for winning (although only by 2 seconds!!!!!! ) and a great ride by John by getting in the mix for the overall and making for a promising season for the inter club battles!!!

The event winner was the World Junior Pursuit Champion Andy Tennant, who set off 2 minutes behind me a took me at 6 miles like a bloody train, I’ve never seen class on a bike like that before!!! This guy was like an exocet!! Would love to be overtaken by Wiggins for 5 minutes, that would be an experience. He ended the day with a 19.33, on a windy day!!!! Goodness knows what he would do on a float day, crikey.

Good luck to Al riding the other drag strip on the opposite side of the country, the V718, here’s hoping for less wind.

ALLEZ LES VERTS.

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